What Photography Means to Me
What Photography Means to Me Brett Matlock Everyone has a different interpretation of everything. In Marvin Heiferman's Photography Changes Everything , he explains how photography is one of the largest mediums, used by countless people everyday. With someone so big, it's bound to be seen by everyone differently. So people even argue about what should even count as photography. For me, I believe photography is anything originating from a camera with only touch-ups. Fixing contrast, saturation, etc. is all good as long as the original photographed subject remains as you imaged it. Basically, if you take a picture of a dog and edit it to look like a fish, that's not photography, that's art. If you take a picture of a building and edit the amount of light or focus of the picture and maybe edit a distracting tree out, I believe that's photography. I believe photography is a moment in time that has been captured and preserved. I believe it is a way to look at what has ha...